About Us

Here is a 35 min podcast if you want to know more about who we are.

We are a trio. We owe our childhood to growing up in different Indian cities – on a staple of books, street-food, music and of course, science. We met during our undergraduate years at Acharya Narendra Dev College, in the University of Delhi. We went on to do different things after completing our Bachelors degrees’ in Biomedical Science.

We are passionate about science in its various forms and beyond our immediate research interests. We hope to enthuse people with our fondness as we experienced from a family member, a teacher or a scientist.

Our belief is that stripping of science from the constructed notions of a scientist (bookish, nerdy, lab-coat wearing and loner) will go a long way to get the general public interested. This is hence an attempt to open a dialogue on scientific issues… be it an interesting article from a research group or an engrossing talk or podcast and or even a conversation at the intersection of science and society.

Comments and suggestions are welcome here or on twitter @IndSciComm. Our views are personal and do not reflect those of our employers past or present.

Shruti Muralidhar: I am currently a postdoc at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory at MIT. I did my first postdoc at the University of Utah, my PhD at the EPFL in Switzerland, and my masters at National Brain Research Center (NBRC). I am one of the core members of IndSciComm and I like doing my scicomm through short form articles, doodles, drawings, videos and gifs.

Navneet Vasistha: I’m a postdoc at MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh. I’m using patient derived stem cells to study schizophrenia and other mental disorders. I studied for my D.Phil from Oxford and got my Masters degree from University of Delhi. I am one of the core members of IndSciComm and have experience in scicomm via twitter, blogs and face to face with small groups.

Abhishek Chari: I recently defended my Masters thesis at the University of Utah, dealing with bacterial symbionts of insects. While at Utah, I won a university grant to improve teaching concepts and methodology for an undergraduate cell biology course. I am currently branching out into science communication with long form and short form articles, peppered with doodles if possible. I am one of the core members of IndSciComm and you can read my articles here, here and here.

Collaborators and Contributors:

Amrita Sule: I am a post doctoral researcher at Virginia Commonwealth University. My research is focused on DNA repair and DNA damage response in context of cancer therapy. I did my Bachelors and Masters from University of Mumbai, India. I trying my hand at science communication on social media via Twitter and Instagram as well as local science out reach events.